Disorder and Fracture
. Ed(S): Charmet, J.C.; Guyon, E.; Roux, Stephane
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Paperback. Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Cargese, France, May 29--June 9, 1989. Editor(s): Charmet, J.C.; Guyon, E.; Roux, Stephane. Series: NATO Science Series B: Physics. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDE; TBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1230.
Fracture, and particularly brittle fracture, is a good example of an instability. For a homogeneous solid, subjected to a uniform stress field, a crack may appear anywhere in the structure once the threshold stress is reached. However, once a crack has been nucleated in some place, further damage in the solid will in most cases propagate from the initial crack, and not somewhere else in the solid. In this sense fracture is an unstable process. This property makes the process extremely sensitive to any heterogeneity present in the medium, which selects the location of the first crack nucleated. In particular, ... Read more
Fracture, and particularly brittle fracture, is a good example of an instability. For a homogeneous solid, subjected to a uniform stress field, a crack may appear anywhere in the structure once the threshold stress is reached. However, once a crack has been nucleated in some place, further damage in the solid will in most cases propagate from the initial crack, and not somewhere else in the solid. In this sense fracture is an unstable process. This property makes the process extremely sensitive to any heterogeneity present in the medium, which selects the location of the first crack nucleated. In particular, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Series
NATO Science Series B: Physics
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306435768
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V9780306435768
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